Category: News
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Becoming an Author
It’s a powerful aspiration—to create worlds from your mind, breathe life into characters, and share your tales with a global audience through your book. But for aspiring writers, the journey can seem daunting. Having penned seven books myself, I can assure you that the journey is as rewarding as it is challenging. Let me break…
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A Writer’s Perseverance: Throwback To My First Major Interview
This throwback photo isn’t just a picture; it’s a window into a turning point in my writing career. Ten years ago, in my village home in Kerala, the mobile phone buzzed, connecting me to my first major interview with a major national newspaper, The Hindu.
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A Real Horror Show
First Published Oct 27, 2019 in Mumbai Mirror. Spontaneous fires, banshees and ghost riders – discover the most haunted places in India, this Halloween.
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ഒരു എന്ജിനിയര് പറയുന്ന കഥകള്
അമ്മ പറഞ്ഞു തന്ന കഥകളിലൂടെ സ്വപ്നങ്ങള് കണ്ടിരുന്ന കാലം. ആ യാത്രകള്ക്കൊടുവില് എഴുത്തുകാരന് എന്ന പേരു കൂടി ഒപ്പം കൂട്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു ഈ ചെറുപ്പക്കാരന്. ആഗ്രഹം അത്രമേല് ശക്തമാണെങ്കില് സ്വപ്നങ്ങളൊക്കെ കൈക്കുമ്പിളിലേക്ക് എത്തിക്കാമെന്നു തെളിയിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു തൃശൂര് ഇരിങ്ങാലക്കുടക്കാരന് കെ ഹരികുമാര്.
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Storyteller at Heart
Interview originally printed in Deccan Chronicle in June 2013. Wannabe writers might want to try travelling in trains when they feel creative. Back in 1990 J. K. Rowling was on a train to London when the idea for Harry Potter just “fell into her head”. Twenty years later, K. Hari Kumar wrote his first novel on…
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INTERVIEW| Fear defines horror and the reader must be able to perceive that: Author K. Hari Kumar
Inspiration comes from all quarters; films, folktales and even cartoons. I have read stories from Chandamama, and ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Satyajit Ray and Ruskin Bond. Pet Sematary was the full-fledged horror novel that made a deep impact in my mind. The Butcher’s Theater by Jonathan Kellerman made me realise that every horror story…
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Why is the horror genre still an underrated one in India?
Screenwriter and bestselling horror writer K. Hari Kumar finds the genre’s market marginalised and untapped despite our rich oral horror tradition. “Only few retain the taste in horror, while majority keep away because of the fear it instilled in their mind. The tendency to choose an international writer sometimes puts Indian English writers of the…
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‘Brahm is a heady mix of paranormal and psychological elements’: Kalki and Sanjay on ZEE5 show
Bhram is based on K Hari Kumar’s 2018 novel, The Other Side Of Her. The show is directed by Sangeeth Sivan. Kalki says she started prepping for the show by reading real-life accounts of accident survivors. “Sangeeth sent me stories of people who had gone through accidents but couldn’t recall it because of trauma. In…
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Spinning Yarns of Horror
night. “They are like woollen blankets,” says author K Hari Kumar. “They keep you warm on rainy nights.” With his latest book, India’s Most Haunted: Tales of Terrifying places (HarperCollins), Mumbai-based Kumar wishes to reaffirm his place as one of India’s top horror writers. With a collection of fifty short stories, he hopes to frighten…